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Great Depression Starts
The Great Depression starts and it effects North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. -
Bud Cardwell is born
Bud Cardwell is born in the middle of the Great Depression and lived with his mom -
Bud Cladwell's mom dies
Buds mom dies when he is six and he goes to a foster home. Meets new friends at the foster home also. -
World War 2 Starts
World War 2 started on September 1st, 1939 and it lasted until 1945. Some of the biggest counties that fought in world war 2 were Germany, Japan, Italy, America, England, France, Russia. -
Pentagon government building was finshed
General Brehon Somervell provided the major motive power behind the project. The Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings, with about 6,500,000 sq ft. -
Thomas Jefferson Memorial is complete
Thomas Jefferson Memorial is made and people watch on TV and other stuff and Bud watches also. -
Bud is placed in a foster home
After Bud mom dies he goes to a foster home and lives there for a day before he escapes. -
Bud goes off the grid
Bud finds out that his friend Mrs.Hill has moved to Chicago and he is back to the planning map to find out what to do now. His friend bugs finds him and convinces him to go off the grid for a little while so they can find a place to work and live far away from Flint, Michigan. -
Goes to Hooverville
Bud and Bugs try to catch a train with a bunch of people that are called the hoovervillers. The train was leaving flint and going to Chicago and Bud thought if he can get to Chicago he can start a new life there. -
Bud meets Deza Malone
Bud meets Deza Malone and they have to clean dishes with each other and Deza Malone and Bud kiss while doing the dishes -
Bud gets a ride from Lefty Lewis
Bud misses the train that he wanted to get on to go to Chicago and he decides to find his father in Grand Rapids and he gets a rid from a guy that knows his father. -
Bud arrives at Grand Calloway Station
After getting a ride from Lefty Lewis He finds himself at the Grand Calloway Station looking at the front door. He thought that this day would never come and he is very happy that it did. -
Bud learns the truth
One night on the road with the band, Bud ends up riding back with Herman E. Calloway who still doesn't trust him. When Bud shows him the stuff in his suitcase, which are old rocks with dates written on them, Herman asks Bud who is mother is. Bud tells him that his mother was Angela Janet Calloway. We learn that Angela is Herman's daughter who he had not seen. She ran away when she was 21 years old. Herman never knew he had a grand son. But now he knows -
The end
Bud continues living at Grand Calloway station, and he becomes an honorary member of Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression. They call him Sleepy LaBone. -
Cops stop biggest Box Train Rider Group
In 1959 cops stop one of the biggest box car train riding groups in history. They caught about 2,000 people that were trying to get from Chicago to Michigan
